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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Pig in Dampe's Graveyard I really can't picture a production run of only 50 for a cart based game even if there was a glitch. Weren't carts HUGELY expensive to manufacture?
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ghostwritingduck posted:I would argue that Hot Coffee was a hoax of sorts considering you needed cheating devices to unlock it. It was still in the code though. The nude skins, however, were added by a modder on the PC version. So it was more a bumping and grinding simulator than a sex minigame.
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| # ¿ Aug 31, 2010 01:28 |
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Dalkalopagus posted:I recently found this "guide" that just lists all of the stupid rumors about Mario 64 and overanalyzes them. It's so stupid it was actualy rejected from GameFAQS 3 times. There's not enough love for this. This guide is so loving terrible it's hilarious. I kinda feel bad for the author, because you can tell from his writing that he's so proud of it, but it's just too bad to even kinda compliment him on. It has a whole section on how "Dorrie must've been able to eat you at one point, because why else would they call her a 'beast'?!  ".EDIT: My favorite so far quote:------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Fancy 400 lbs fucked around with this message at Sep 4, 2010 around 06:09 |
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Endorph posted:I... what? Tick Tock Clock's entrance isn't in a tree. It's in a loving clock. I was more amused at the fact that he thought that the Japanese art team would hide a Morse code message in English in the stars in a painting, but that's another good point.
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| # ¿ Sep 4, 2010 06:18 |
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m2pt5 posted:Yeah, except in the games Venonat evolves into Venomoth and Metapod evolves into Butterfree. The point is that it looks like the final evolutions are switched. His point was since it's the same designer/artist, there will probably be similar features on unrelated Pokemon. Also, convergent evolution. :p
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| # ¿ Sep 6, 2010 16:45 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:Instead we got Final Fantasy 7, which is the Sonic 3 to my TheJoker138 (IE, I am the only person who thinks it's bad). High five thinking Final Fantasy VII sucks buddy! IX is the superior PS1 FF.  To tie it in slightly to the topic, I always thought Excalibur II in IX was an internet in joke or rumor til I saw my friend get it. You have to get to the final area in 12 hours which is basically impossible without skipping cutscenes by opening the top of the PS1.
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2010 16:26 |
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Jibo posted:This reminds me. In the original Animal Crossing there is data for Legend of Zelda as an NES game you could get for your house. As far as I know there weren't any rumors about how to get it, but it was rumored that there was some kind of enhanced graphics CDi version in the game as well. As far as I've seen this is false and no such game exists, aside from a completely different top down perspective Zelda game for the CDi. The original was gotten through a contest, and hackers later found the in game code to unlock it. Never heard the CDi version rumor though.
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| # ¿ Nov 16, 2010 05:03 |
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Nebelwerfer posted:It might work, but you'd need hella lot of exprience of that sort of stuff, proper gear and hella lot of And if you did do it, it wouldn't actually do anything, except most like make it buggy as gently caress, since you'd have to basically write drivers from scratch and trick the Wii into loading them instead of the real ones which are probably integrated into the OS at a low level for improved performance since they're not supposed to change, and none of the games actually have any graphics options to change.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2011 09:00 |
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Dr. Dos posted:I knew BSNES was "more accurate" but never noticed anything wrong using Snes9x. This is kind of a surprising read. Even more surprising is trying BSNES and finding out that you only get 35 FPS on the main menu of Yoshi's Island on a machine that can run Crysis maxed at 1080p before turning on scaling and filters. I think I can live with zSNES/SNES9x being slightly inaccurate.
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2011 02:01 |
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fishmech posted:Doesn't the SNES natively only run at 30 frames per second though? The audio was going about half speed, and it was visibly choppy.
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2011 02:15 |
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The problem I have with it was that the video would've been found long before the room was.
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| # ¿ Aug 14, 2011 19:47 |
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Doom and all those make random atmospheric noises all the time. It was probably just someone hearing those plus confirmation bias.
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2011 01:27 |
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He just listened to too much Slayer before bed, it happens to the best of us. 
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| # ¿ Sep 12, 2011 22:47 |
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brambi posted:Didn't Ion Storm get closed down mysteriously as well? I think i read that somewhere. No. Every major designer left, so they shut it down.
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2011 16:16 |
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Trollologist posted:Says the person who assumes that Brothers = Black people. You're not a very good trollologist.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 05:51 |
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Or they just mainly made smaller cities and cut down on background characters because the Gameboy cartridge they used was 0.5 MB.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 22:51 |
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Does anyone have that (obviously fake) story about how FF8 was just the developers suffering from delusions from a gas leak? That one is always hilarious.
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2011 20:47 |
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DiseasedTempest posted:http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 Yeah, that's it. Thanks!
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| # ¿ Oct 10, 2011 04:56 |
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The Interloper posted:The 'crazy FF8 theory' I personally found most interesting was the one that it's actually set in the same world as FF3. It's pretty shaky like most of them, but a lot of it hinges around the Deep Sea Research Centre, which always intrigued me because it really is something that the game never tells you the story behind. Even the Ultimania doesn't shed any light on it. FF3J or FF3US/FF6J? I could see either actually, without hearing the details.
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| # ¿ Oct 10, 2011 19:53 |
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Actually, it's refereed to mainly in the background text of the different Ivalice games, but the world of Ivalice went through a few major eras. See: The Airship Graveyard in Tactics.
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2011 03:40 |
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Speaking of maps withing maps: Top is a section of the Zelda 2 map, bottom is the entire Zelda 1 map.
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2011 03:55 |
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Yup. I personally found it pretty obvious, but that may just be because I've owned almost every Zelda game released besides the CD-i abominations. v v
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2011 04:09 |
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Want me to grab my XBox copy as proof?
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2011 08:54 |
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BobTheJanitor posted:This just reminded me of another Half-Life 1 oddity that I'd almost forgotten about. There is one spot right at the start of the game where it seems like Gordon speaks. Although it doesn't make much sense. It's near the start so it's easy to test it out. It's right before you start the resonance cascade. Get up to the point where they want you to shove the sample cart into the reactor, and just wait. It only takes a minute or so, and then some voice that doesn't really sound like any of the other scientists says "What is he doing in there?" to which one of the scientist voices replies "Nothing you need to worry about, Gordon." It's really odd, and it's not referenced anywhere else in the game. It's remained a mystery ever since I noticed it years ago. I think the scientist is telling Gordon to remain calm about what the other voice said.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 23:32 |
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TheJoker138 posted:What about when it gets chilly out? Then he warms up with lasers, duh...
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2012 08:39 |
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big mean giraffe posted:The general internet also gave us Marble Hornets. Nope, that was goons.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2012 13:48 |
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Install Gentoo posted:Those aren't flash carts, those are just regular N64 DD disks in blue. The N64 DD uses an inherently rewritable medium, they're basically just Zip Disk type magnetic disks in a different case style. So they broke in about 3 months?
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Ghostlight posted:It wasn't anything specific, but Nob who did the localisation up until... I think G/S(?) posted on alt.games.nintendo.pokemon. My actual posting there (and in closely associated boards) consisted of probably about 10% Pokemon-related things and 90% just being a twat to people because I hung around the chatroom a lot, so I was called out regularly for being a troll and got a fair amount of hate-mail/IMs. At one point Nob was shifting a whole bunch of Pokemon toys and merchandise that he'd acquired from Nintendo and I was one of the recipients of a roughly shoebox-sized parcel of assorted toys, and I actually had other people in the newsgroup emailing me and messaging me about what a gently caress I was for 'taking' it from someone else who was more serious about pokemans. He translated everything but the latest generation, and he posts here as Douglas Dinsdale.
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Funkmaster General posted:Actually, from what I understand there are remnants of partially-implemented bot AI hiding in Halo 2 and 3 code. Were one of the "ghosts" to be using this AI they'd probably behave erratically and in a glitchy fashion due to being unfinished. I did have one of these appear in a system link Halo 2 match one time, and that's an environment where there should have been no lag, so I could believe it was using some form of that. The thing only ran straight forward, though, into a wall forever. It didn't do any of this stupid "spoooooooooky" stuff the article mentions (it was invincible, though). A LAN can still be laggy if the router/switch over heats, the cable is damaged, the port on the actual XBox is messing up, or hell, just because computers are imperfect in general, etc. I've seen people with 200ms pings on a gigabit ethernet switch before at a PC LAN party.
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2012 04:45 |
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No one's saying they don't exist, just that no one actually uses them, let alone large amounts of people.
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| # ¿ Mar 13, 2012 22:29 |
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I think that's an unstated assumption when we're talking about FFVII being the first RPG to do "X" where X isn't related to being able to use CD storage and 3D graphics.
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| # ¿ May 16, 2012 06:20 |
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Defiance Industries posted:How do I phrase "Wild Arms did both of THOSE first too" without being all By remembering that no one played it. 
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| # ¿ May 16, 2012 07:20 |
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Neito posted:Anyone remember the Super Mario RPG Sheep Attack (I think it was called)?For those who don't know, it was one of the more convoluted things I've ever unlocked. You had to buy two worthless items for semi-insane numbers of coins (200 coins for the "Mystery Egg" and 150 or so for the "Bathtub Ring"). You then have to think to equip Peach with the Bathtub Ring, use the Mystery Egg 10 times in battle, and you get the "Lamb's Lure". Then, you'd have to use the Lamb's Lure (which turns one enemy into a sheep, and you don't get coins or EXP for it) 48 times to get the Sheep Attack. I heard about it but figured it couldn't be true because it was stupid. Then I watched my friend do it in his game and it was just  . SMRPG had a lot of weird secrets like that come to think of it.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 02:22 |
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Tragedienne posted:Final Fantasy IX deserves special mention in here. Even with the guide, you couldn't do everything. The guide would give you hints and tidbits, along with: "To find out more go to PlayOnline and type in this code!" So even with the guide, you'd still have to go online to find most of the game's secrets and extras. Don't forget that they closed it down after like a year!
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 20:28 |
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RiffRaff1138 posted:This actually did happen, but not with FFXI: Sony shut down Everquest to prevent Kerafyrm the Sleeper from being defeated. (See entry #5 (then, tell me what the gently caress is with that header image?)) Holy poo poo that's a terribly written article, even by Cracked standards. It has a Michael Jackson pedophile joke. It was written less than a year ago.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 22:05 |
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Midnight Raider posted:I haven't read the translation, but I recall hearing that in Japanese, Kefka swore like a sailor, apparently as a part of his craziness. So? That's not a sign of craziness in the English speaking world, so it would be out of place in an English translation. A translation that's just word for word dictionary translation is pretty much the worst kind there is.
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| # ¿ Jun 10, 2012 05:28 |
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Mister Roboto posted:Don't you find it strange to readily accept some references to European high culture but to dismiss others arbitrarily? All of THESE opera/play references, they count, but I won't accept THESE ones? Well yeah, if your claim is they're Renaissance references, a very specific time period, and most of them aren't from that time period, that's a good reason to dismiss them.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2012 04:03 |
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XII was pretty much Square ruining the game, though I think they should spin off the Ivalice games from the Final Fantasy franchise. Just for an idea of how pissed off Square made him, the game he worked on between it and the Tactics Ogre PSP port was as the writer for MadWorld. Yes, this MadWorld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2MYPmbgrI0 Just a bit different than his usual work.
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| # ¿ Jun 29, 2012 21:43 |
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Yup, I own a copy of Ultima Exodus for NES. It has a pretty sweet OST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4qeLRbw_rI
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Star Fox/ZoE crossover. You know it would be amazing.
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